You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.
Proverbs and old sayings German about contentment
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You have to take life as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.
Proverbs and old sayings German about life, contentment
He who has not yet reached the opposite shore should not make fun of him who is drowning.
Proverbs and old sayings Guinean
You don't kill a gypsy by cutting him in ten pieces -- you only make ten more gypsies.
Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, contentment
Justice is better than admiration If you are going to kill, then kill an elephant; if you are going to steal make sure it's a treasure.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about admiration, treasure, justice, contentment
Don't be ever in court or a castle without a woman to make your excuse.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about woman
If there is bitterness in the heart, sugar in the mouth won't make life sweeter.
Proverbs and old sayings about life, heart
Greater fools than they of Zago, who dunged the steeple to make it grow.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
Agree between yourselves (as to the time), quoth Arlotto, and I will make it rain.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about rain, time
If the rich could hire the poor to die for them, the poor would make a very nice living.
Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about wealth, death
If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living.
Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about wealth, death
When you've heard it you must see it; when you've seen it make a judgement with your heart.
Proverbs and old sayings about heart, contentment
Pursue that course which offers most advantages, habit will soon make it agreeable and easy.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about habits
What is not understood [explained] by what is less understood. [To make confusion still more confounded. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about confusion
Greed keeps men forever poor, even the abundance of this world will not make them rich.
Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian about greed, wealth, world, man
If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian
Eat in Poland, drink in Hungary, sleep in Germany, and make love in Italy.
Proverbs and old sayings Polish about sleep, drinking, love
What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about pray, man, god
A lady has to be of the right cut and the right measure to make a pretty figure.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about rightness, measure
A given excuse that was not asked for implies guilt. Clapping with only the right hand will not make a noise.
Proverbs and old sayings about guilt, rightness
